The Long View: ABCD of India-China relations

When the leaders of India and China hold talks, the world will be watching closely, and not without reason. This time round, there is a new configuration, which promises to invest the maiden full-spectrum summit between India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s Xi Jinping with an added resonance: on both sides, there are strong-willed leaders who are armed with an unambiguous mandate to take decisive initiatives an